American Theatre, July 1st, 2002
Once we find the fruits of success," the playwright William Inge wrote ruefully in 1958, "the taste is nothing like what we had anticipated."
Life was no picnic for the author of Picnic, who anticipated--and endured--many emotional ups and downs before he ended his own life in 1973. What he probably did not anticipate was a chorus line of musical-theatre starlets slinking across a stage singing "All That Jazz" in his honor. But such was the salient image from the 21st annual William Inge Theatre Festival, which took place in April in the playwright's hometown of Independence, Kans. For the ...
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